November 4, 2007: Confirmed that there were no unusual circumstances at the labor reform farm. Explained the events to the client.
The bodies of Zhu Ziyang and Xie Liu could not be recovered, so their missing-person cases could not be closed.
Commission complete.
That long video had nearly kept me up all night.
Liu Miao's ability looked all too familiar.
I didn't know whether all evil ghosts were dragged into hell by the people who hated them, and Liu Miao's ability merely let him trigger or speed up the process, or whether that was Liu Miao's ability itself. In my dreams, I'd seen certain ghosts killed by countless hands. Maybe Liu Miao's ability had been at work.
Liu Miao had already gone missing.
He'd disappeared after Wu Ling, and Wu Ling and the others didn't know what had happened to him, either.
Ye Qing was probably the only one who knew. But Ye Qing wasn't going to tell me any of it voluntarily.
I suspected that Ye Qing had done something that caused Liu Miao's ability to appear in my dreams.
I put those suspicions aside for the time being and looked at the end of the file.
The labor reform farm had been abandoned for years, so it should be fine now. There shouldn't be anything wrong with the place, either. It was just that the choice made by that daredevil amateur was somewhat unsettling.
After something like that had happened there, the place was bound to leave people feeling uneasy.
I spent the whole night having nightmares. I kept dreaming about those armored men, the snake monsters, and the chunks of corpses in the freezers. A giant python chased me, trying to eat me. I ran into the skinny guy and the others, and I also encountered